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Rh pitied. But not being one of these women, I didn't ask so much."

."You don't know yourself, Mademoiselle. Oh! if only I had been in M. Hervart's place."

"What would have happened?" asked Rose, without the least emotion, without even the least curiosity.

"How I should have loved you!"

"But he loved me a great deal."

"He didn't love you as you should be loved."

"I don't know. How should I know these things. I believed, that was all. I believed in him."

"He was not worthy of you."

"Perhaps it was I who was unworthy of him, since he loves me no more."

"Unworthy of him, you? Don't you know, then, what this woman is?"

"No, and I don't want to know. Oh! I'm not jealous. I'm humiliated. I feel as though I had been beaten. Jealous? No. I have stopped loving and I shall never love again."

"Don't say that."

"Love doesn't come twice."

"But if one is unhappy the ﬁrst time?"

"One remains unhappy."